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Bible Verses About Meditation

This collection includes 50 passages about Meditation. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

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Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

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I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

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Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

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Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

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I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

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And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

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Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

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My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

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Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.

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Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

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My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.

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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

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When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

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And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;

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Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

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I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

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To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

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Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

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And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

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And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

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For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

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Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

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I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

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Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

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And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

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For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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